![]() ![]() The Great Bridge (1972), his exhaustive account of the technology, personalities and politics involved in building New York Citys Brooklyn Bridge, was hailed as a monument in its own right. ![]() The Adams project took McCullough seven years, and Truman took him 10 (and when at last he showed his wife, Rosalee McCullough, the massive typescript, he said, she was amazed that it hadnt taken longer). His readers got a lot of work for their money. 1 in its first week and has since gone through dozens more printings. ![]() Truman topped The New York Times bestseller list for 43 weeks John Adams was No. ![]() He received National Book Awards for The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal (1977) and Mornings on Horseback (1981), about the young Theodore Roosevelt and his family.ĭeep research and lively readability were hallmarks of his books and so was their tendency to leap off the shelves. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for two presidential biographies, Truman (1992) and John Adams (2001). The death was confirmed by his daughter Dorie Lawson. David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning, bestselling author and an appealing television host and narrator with a rare gift for re-creating the great events and characters of Americas past, died Sunday at his home in Hingham, Massachusetts, southeast of Boston. ![]()
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